From liberal freedom fighter to conservative populist. The many faces of Viktor Orbán.

In this video, we take a look at the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán - his political beginnings, how he created the Fidesz party and his political rise to power.
Orbán's evolution from liberal politician, who was part of a vibrant student movement in the 1980’s and 1990’s to winning his first elections and becoming Hungary’s Prime Minister who is called a populist, and by some, even a dictator. Following the political career and biography of Viktor Orbán, we also discuss the latest history of Hungary, political parties in Hungary, its creeping nationalism and dealing with the recent migrant crisis.
The biography of Viktor Orbán makes him one of the most fascination politicians in Europe right now. The young Viktor Orbán was idealistic and looking to learn from Western democracies, even being funded by the George Soros foundation. The Viktor Orbán of today is rubbing elbows with Putin and Trump, and has pursued a media and power grab of Hungary’s institutions like no politician before him.
Our OSW experts cover these issues and more in this Viktor Orbán documentary.
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you guys got a youtube channel in english? damn guys i wish you all the best

[@jezalb2710]

Any translated really well.

[@laszlo4919]

There is a missing part. In 1994 the liberal party (SZDSZ) made coalition with the communist heritage party. That was unacceptable for many liberal politicans, and fidesz denied to make that coaliton. So liberalism changed, not orban.
Also jobbik was not a fidesz rival party, its a workers party, in early 2000s they were MSZP voters, where conservative voters were already united by fidesz.
Its might be odd, but in early 2000s the socialist party was a primitive openly racist populist party, just like jobbik, and nationalism vs EU was not in focus.
After that ferenc gyurcsány who wanted to be the strongman of the hungarian left made the rest of the intellectual liberal base vanish behind from the soc-lib coalition.
So literally the liberal and conservative intellecutal base united in one side, and on the otherside there is nothing but salesmans whom make their living by selling to the west the story about the mindbinder dictator. When will you wake up?!

[@laszlo4919]

20:40 sorry, but orban did not loose that debate. gyurcsány lied several times, and thoose lies cost the left wing at least 20 years of despair

[@jezalb2710]

There was no round table talks in Hungary. It was a triangular shape. I think.

[@dealundquist4236]

Who’s this Gisnaska? People from Ukraina are talking politics about Orban. She should know that the 1960s in most places in Europe was no running water on countryside. Not only in Hungary, but in most European countries. So this beggans with a hipocracy. You try to make Orban to a Soros product, however, Orbas wasn’t for sale…

[@Canada-1958]

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